>>Hi,
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>>When a user tries to connect to SQL Server 2008 (from my VFP 9 application) he gets error:
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>>SQL Server Error 10060
>>[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpenConnect())
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>>The connection string I set up has my SQL Server ID and Password and I could connect (at least last night) without any problems. And he (this user) is supposed to connect with these credentials but something does not work. One thing I don't understand in the above error is [DBNETLIB]. What does it mean? TIA.
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>The solution to the problem turned out to be very simple. The DBA informed me that he had a Firewall blocking the server to everybody in their organization. Once he opened the firewall, all works well.

Yes, that was one of the possible reasons (from that link I sent you).